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creditor

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cred·i·tor  (krd-tr)
n.
One to whom money or its equivalent is owed.
creditor
Noun
a person or company to whom money is owed
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.creditor - a person to whom money is owed by a debtor; someone to whom an obligation exists
individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being; "there was too much for one person to do"
mortgage holder, mortgagee - the person who accepts a mortgage; "the bank became our mortgagee when it accepted our mortgage on our new home"
debitor, debtor - a person who owes a creditor; someone who has the obligation of paying a debt
Translations
Spanish creditor [ˈkrɛdɪtəʳ] n → acreedor(a) m/f
French creditor [ˈkrɛdɪtəʳ] n → créancier/ière
German creditor [ˈkrɛdɪtəʳ] credit n → Gläubiger m
Italian creditor [ˈkrɛdɪtəʳ] n → creditore/trice
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Once in every decade there shall be a general settlement, when the balance due shall be paid to the creditor nation in Mexican dollars.
Fantastic-Fables by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
He looked like a man who had never cringed and never had had a creditor.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
Chadband's habit--it is the head and front of his pretensions indeed--to keep this sort of debtor and creditor account in the smallest items and to post it publicly on the most trivial occasions.
Bleak House by Dickens, Charles View in context
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